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	Sentenced Omaha Nun Now Wants to Pull Theft Plea Associated Press, carried in NTV July 23, 2008 http://www.nebraska.tv/Global/story.asp?S=8723158 OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A 73-year-old Omaha Catholic nun sentenced to three to five years for theft is now saying she wants to withdraw her plea. Sister Barbara Markey says she wants a new trial or to receive a new sentence. Prosecutors say Markey embezzled more than $250,000 from the Archdiocese. She was fired as director of the archdiocese's Family Life Office in January 2006 after irregularities arose during an audit. Her attorney, Bill Gallup, says she did not enter her plea knowingly. Gallup also says a letter from the archdiocese may have influenced the judge's sentence.
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